The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-07-01
W estern Americans
MEN WHO DEVELOP, sppr-,-
GROW BEYOND THE PRArprr-

GROW BEYOND THE PRAIRIE
The American man ONLY .
himself and grows "for al he 20 ,..a .,..a
in the Great West. He is mo-.
and timber there and unfoIds tbosa ..'. '''.
Gus peculiarities and largenesses -,
manity which never bIossomed b.,' -''
The "environment" has much ;.
with il. The great spaces OVER
he Ioams contribute to the eDlar,,. .l
of his metal horizon. There bor,
races before who roamed the 1I.-''l
bic desert, but they travelled on fo.,
on camel back and limited IN !.
range. There was nothing con,i,,-,,
about them. as there is about our ~, -
road desert travellers, who swipo ., ,','
through thousands Of miles of sar5 .
sage brush with a growing coDtar,,,,
time and space. But expans;-s q"
great as these people have becoros -
the new conditions, the Drawar
fancy that the development of tbs
has only just began, and that M. :,
ture will show US in perfection ~.
of man new to the world. Ont a..
where or the Santa Fe route. wbs,.G,
desert OF one day was like the de-.
the day before and the Pullman o.,
and sw ings over the wide waste b.
the blue sky day after dav Br5.-
black flag OF smoke, in the early or, :
morning, when the men were r.;,.
sheIr turns at the a5lution bowls -
OF boy. perhaps aged Z, stood b,r..
ing himself on his little legs clad +.
knickerbockers, biding his time u-s
al the nOnchalance of an old csn,,..-
~. How did you sleep. can ., -, =,
we'll meaning eldeIy gsDusu,.
Well, thank you," was the di,rfs-,
response las l always do on a slssr-.-
car" Always does d? Great No..
Hardly out of his swaddling clotbs.,,,
yet he always sleeps well in a sIs.r.-,
Was he born on the wheeIs-wss he o.,.
led in a Pullman He has ALWAYS -
in motion, probably he was gtsrrss :.
thirty miles an hour, no doub, -
marvellous boy of our pew era. Ua
not born in a house of rest. but thai,
motive snatched hiun along with 2 sf-;..
and a roar before his eyes were fg;.l.
open and he was rocked in a "sectio,. .
and his first sensation of life wsstbs..
moving rapidly over vast arid sp,,.
Though cattle ranges 4l-d along e.,o,.
The effort OF quick and easv lyc1no-,.
OIL character may have been r,,,s
before, but 1t seems that there is ~,
production of new sort Of man a..
direct product OF our railway era IL,
not simply that this boy is mature br.
he must be different and d noblsr ~
of boy than one born, say. at hone orr
a canal boat for whether he was b,,-
on the rail OF not, be belongs 10 the r,r.
way system Of civilization. Befors h.
gets into trousers he is old in eyperfar.
and he has discounted many Of the rov.
elites that usually break gradually m
the pilgrim of this world. He bsrr7y,
10 the new expansive race that ms
live in motion, whose proper HON. IA
the Pullman (which will probably b
Improved iG time into a dus egg sVss
smelling, well aired Ded-ooml srl
whose domestic life will be oD the wing
so to speak. The Inter state Commar,.
bill will pass him along without fr,ctr
from end to end Of the Union and "a.
haps d uniform divorce law will eusbls
him to change his martial relations a.
any place where he happens 10 dine
The promising lad is only a faint I1..
nation of what We are all coming a
when we fully acquire the freedom r
the continent ard come into that s1.
pansiveness of feeling and Of language
which characterizes the Great Wes.
1t Is burst of joyous exuberance tbs.
comes from the sense OF an ulimitabls
horizon. 1t shows itself in tender words
OF local newspaper at Bowie. ARR.
on the death of d beloved citizen
" Death loves a shining mark, and sLe
hit a dandy when she turned loose OF
Jim. " And also in the closing words
of New Mexico obituary. which Tie
Kansas Magazine quotes: Her tired
spirit was released from the pain rack
ing body and scared alOft to e.sEUs
glory at 4:3O, Denver time. - We de,
as II were, in motion, as We sleep. al
there is nowhere any boundary to Ou
expansion. Perhaps We shall Devs.
again know any rest as we now under
stand the term--rest being only chslgs
of motioR-aud We shall not be able to
sleep except on the cars, and whether
We die by Denver time or by the yJ1
meridian. we shall only change our tina,
Blessed be this slip of a boy who
man before he is an infant and teaches
us what rapid transit can DO for our
race The only thing that can possibly
hinder US in our progress will be second
childhood; we have abolished first
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